Arturo yilaseca y yelasco



(No Model.)

A. VILASEOA Y VELASCO.

GAME COUNTER.

No. 447,454. Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTURO VILASECA Y VELASCO, OF BARCELONA, SPAIN.

GAM ECOUNTER.

SPECIFICAIION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,454, dated March 3, 1891.

Application filed November Z0, 1890. Serial No. 372,112. (No model.) Patented in Spain May 24; 1890, No. 10,848, and in France September 29, 1890,

T0 coZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTURO VILASECA Y VELASCO, a subject of the King of Spain, residing at the city of Barcelona, Spain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in .Marking Apparatus for Billiards, &c., (for which I have obtained a patent in Spain, No. 10,8:i3, dated May 2 l, 1890, and in France, September 29, 1890,) of which the fol lowing is a speoification.

My invention relates to registcring apparatus adapted to be attached to or incased in one of the cushion-rails of a billiard, bagatelle, or other similar table, and it is especially applicable to so-called carom billiardtables.

The principal objects of my present inven tion aro, first, to provide a billiard, bagatelle, or other similar table with simple, durable, and convenient Counting apparatus for registering the points made by the player; and, second, to so arrange the counting apparatus with relation to the table as not to annoy the players or embarrass the freedom of their" movements.

My invention consists in certain improvements in marking apparatus hereinafter de scribed and pointed out in the claim.

The nature and objects of my present invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which- Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a portion of the cushion-rail of a table, showing one form of my improved registering apparatus in application thereto. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on the line a; o: of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view on the line y y of Fig. l.

In the drawings, li is a portion of the cushion-rail of a billiard, bagatelle, or other table having the cushion removed therefrom.

7L is a recess or cavity cut or otherwise formed 1: referablyin the upper surface of the cushionrail H.

A is a plate located above the recess 7L and mounted fiush with the upper surface of the cushion-rail Il.

K are screws for retaining the plate A to place and for permitting of its removal for repairs or other purposes l3 and O are slots formed in the plate A and adapted for the reception of the two series of balls I and I.

F and F are lugs located at or near the respective extremities of the slot C and attached to or formed integral with the plate A.

D and D are lugs located at or near the respective extremities of the slot B and attached to or formed integral with the said plate A.

G is a rod or carrier passing through the series of balls I and attached to the lugs F and F by means of the head G and nut G E is a' rod or carrier passing through the series of balls I, I and I", and attached to the lugs D by means of a head E and nut E In use the series of balls I represent units, and the series ot balls I, P, and I represent multiples thereof, so that whenever a player soores a point in the game he registers the same by transferring one of the series of balls I to the right or to the left by means of the finger or in any other convenient man ner. As soon as all the balls comprising the series I have been transferred in the manner above described, one of the balls of the other seriesfor example, the ball Iis transferred in a similar manner, and the series of balls I are returned to their initial position.

By providing one marking apparatus for each player and by operating the two series of balls in the above-described manner a complete register or score made by each player is registered, as will be readily understood.

Having thus described the nature and 0b jects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A billiard or bagatelle table provided with a recessed rail or rim, a slotted plate provided with end lugs secured into the recessed portion of said rail or rim, rods or bars supported iu the logs of said plate, and nuts applied at each end of said rods or bars, and balls mounted on said rods or bars and accessible from the face of said slotted plate, all arranged in the manner shown, and for the pur poses described.

ARTURO YILSECA Y VELASCO.

Witnesses:

GERNIMO BOLIVAR, Jaum CASTELER. 

